Impunity 1959

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After such an extended break from blogging, you will be deeply disappointed that I restart with something as mundane and trivial as Jeremy Clarkson. I have defended the man in the past, because I much enjoy Top Gear and consider that much of what he has been criticised for in the past had been an amusing winding-up of the po-faced of the kind I employ myself. But nasty, indeed vicious bullying of a subordinate should always be a sacking offence.

That did not ought to be the question, though. He hit someone and they had to go to hospital. Where are the police? They are incredibly fond of sweeping up scores of teenagers for thought crime, but here we have an actual violent assault that spills blood, and it seems completely out of the question the perpetrator is brought to account. Why is that? I had a personal experience a couple of years ago when I was very mildly hurt – less than young Oisin – in an assault, and the police insisted on arresting the perpetrator despite my repeated requests to them not to do so. They told me rather firmly that the idea that it is the victim who has a say in pressing charges, is a myth. Why was Clarkson not arrested?

I cannot in my mind dissociate this from the non-arrest of Jimmy Savile for his crimes, despite their being well-known and reported at the time. That seems to link in to the wider paedophilia scandal, and the question of why no action was taken even in the most blatant of cases when there was compelling evidence, such as that of the extremely nasty Greville Janner MP.

But then I think still more widely as to why, for example, Jack Straw has not been charged with the crime of misfeasance in public office after boasting of using his position to obtain “under the radar” changes in regulations to benefit commercial clients, in exchange for cash. I wonder why a large number of people did not go to jail for the HSBC tax avoidance schemes or the LIBOR rigging scandal, which involved long term dishonest manipulation by hundreds of very highly paid bankers.

At the top of the tree is of course the question of why Blair has not been charged for the crime of waging illegal war. The Chilcot Inquiry heard evidence that every single one of the FCO’s elite team of Legal Advisers believed that the invasion of Iraq was an illegal war of aggression. Yet now the media disparage as nutters those who say Blair should be charged.

Then I think of all the poor and desperate people who get jailed for stealing comparatively miniscule amounts in benefit fraud, or the boy who was jailed for stealing a bottle of water in the London riots.

The conclusion is that we do not have a system of justice in this country at all. We have a system where the wealthy and governing classes and those associated with them enjoy almost absolute impunity, broken in only the rarest of cases. At the same time those at the bottom of the pile are kicked hard to keep them there. There is no more chance of justice against those in power in the UK than there is of the killers of Nemtsov being brought to book in Russia.

But what has really scared me is this thought. This situation has been like this my entire life: and I have reached the age of 56 before I realised it. A very great many people have still not realised it at all.

What does not scare me is this. I realise that if the system of justice is completely corrupted, then there is no obligation on me to follow the laws of the state. In fact it would be wrong of me to do so. I must seek my ethical compass elsewhere than in the corrupt power structure which weighs so hard upon the people.

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  • Republicofscotland

    Countries around the world,are falling over themselves to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,(AIIB). Australia,and South Korea,are on the verge of joining,as are New Zealand,Germany,Italy and France.

    The UK has already agreed to join,much to the dismay of its master the USA,who see the AIIB,as a threat. China established the lending institution in 2014.

    Countries,have until the end of the month to apply to join the AIIB.

    IMF managing director,

  • Dreoilin

    ‘IMF managing director’, yes?

    Oh my goodness. Did somebody hit RoS over the head?

  • Republicofscotland

    Ah yes I see now see your point Dreolin, I do apologise, l’ll now finish what I started, IMF managing director Christine Legarde,said of the AIIB,we at the IMF,will cooperate fully.

    Dreolin,disregard,my previous comment aimed at you,it would appear,I’m the one suffering from keyboard concussion.

  • Mark Golding

    A recent request for transcript from MH17 cockpit voice recorder from the The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) who according to the BBC downloaded “valid data” from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) has received NO REPLY.

    For further information contact the AAIB:

    Air Accidents Investigation Branch
    Berkshire Copse Road
    Aldershot
    Hampshire
    GU11 2HH
    Tel: 01252 510300
    Fax: 01252 376999
    Email: [email protected]

    I have contacted Jerry Skinner of Liberty Law – (0800 4 LIBERTY (0800 4 542 3789) / Text 7 days: 021 59 58 58) for a progress report on state responsibility for the crime and applications to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

    Meanwhile the bereaved families have received $50,000 compensation.

    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/mh17-malaysia-airlines-asks-relatives-for-income-tax-returns-to-determine-compensation-20150321-1m4d04.html

  • doug scorgie

    John Goss
    22 Mar, 2015 – 4:40 pm

    “One of the things that troubles me is that no doubt many who comment here see the significance of the United Kingdom sending troops and equipment to the Ukraine on taxpayers money without parliamentary debate (dictatorship) yet how many have contacted their MPs for allowing it?”
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

    It’s a waste of time John. These executive decisions are made under the Royal prerogative and can’t be challenged because of our unwritten constitution.

    We have a very British type of “democracy.”

  • doug scorgie

    Courtenay Barnett
    22 Mar, 2015 – 7:56 pm

    “The point is that the orchestrated tensions in Europe should be seen by Europe for what it is without illusions about the risks and warfare that the US is willing to promote in US interests.”
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

    Quite true Courtenay and Britain is the US’ Trojan horse in Europe which is why they doesn’t want the UK to leave the EU.

  • John Goss

    Mark Golding,

    “A recent request for transcript from MH17 cockpit voice recorder from the The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) who according to the BBC downloaded “valid data” from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) has received NO REPLY.

    For further information contact the AAIB:

    Air Accidents Investigation Branch
    Berkshire Copse Road
    Aldershot
    Hampshire
    GU11 2HH
    Tel: 01252 510300
    Fax: 01252 376999
    Email: [email protected] ”

    Thanks for that Mark. Was the request made through a standard FOI procedure? If I write is there any reference to let Aldershot know that it is not an isolated request?

  • doug scorgie

    Fred
    22 Mar, 2015 – 8:02 pm

    @Clark… “I did acid and MDMA a few times”

    @Fred…”Any sign of it wearing off yet?
    ……………………………………………….

    So you can do humour Fred; nice one.

  • glenn_uk

    Crikey – have you seen what they’ve done to the BBC news site? Wonder how much that cost us!

  • YouKnowMyName

    5EYES URGENT: OUR METHODS OF CAUSING MAYHEM and UNREST by the use of BOTNETS, FALSE-FLAGS, HONEYPOT and DIGITAL WATERING HOLE attacks have been revealed.

    deny, deny and if pushed remind everyone that it is totally legal to do this in Elbonia…?

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/communication-security-establishment-s-cyberwarfare-toolbox-revealed-1.3002978

    http://thestack.com/communications-security-establishment-canada-nsa-snowden2-230315

    http://www.techtelling.com/news/leaked-snowden-docs-show-canadas-false-flag-operations

  • Kempe

    ” A recent request for transcript from MH17 cockpit voice recorder from the The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) who according to the BBC downloaded “valid data” from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) has received NO REPLY. ”

    Try the Dept of Transport but if you do get a reply it’ll probably read as follows:-

    Section 44 (1)(a) of the FOI Act provides an exemption from the duty to
    disclose information where disclosure is prohibited under any enactment.
    In this case EU Regulation 996/2010, Article 14. This requires that any
    material collected during an investigation “shall not be made available or
    used for purposes other than safety investigation”. To disclose the
    information you have requested would be incompatible with the Regulation
    and be contrary to UK and European Law. Section 44 is an absolute
    exemption under the Freedom of Information Act.

    There’s also the small matter of the information being provided in confidence besides do you not think that the AAIB have more important things to do than pander to the voyeurism of some dimwit conspiracy theorists? It would be a waste of time anyway as if what was said didn’t agree with your foregone conclusions you’d just whine about it being faked.

  • RobG

    Mods, why are you censoring my previous post, which stated that Exaro News are under cyber attack again?

    All you GCHQ a-holes are going to be put up against a wall and shot. You do know that, don’t you?

  • doug scorgie

    Fred
    22 Mar, 2015 – 10:14 pm

    “Where does Fukushima stand in the all time list of disasters in terms of deaths – strangely enough I could not find it on any of these lists”
    …
    Maybe they’re just over reacting.
    ……………………………………………………………………

    Another good one Fred.

  • Macky

    Doug Scorgie; “Another good one Fred.”

    You missed his best one;

    Fred; “I just post the facts.”

    😀

  • doug scorgie

    Clark
    22 Mar, 2015 – 11:36 pm

    “Even Habbabkuk has been seduced by the place.”
    ………………………………………………………………………………….

    Clark, I think you meant; Habbabkuk has been seduced by a plaice.

    He spends a lot of time on the beach apparently.

  • His Master's Voice

    [cm-org.uk – stuck in spam filter since 15:32]

    Whenever NATO Pact propaganda fails the laugh test, they respond by turning up the volume. This hackwork, by a Western Oriented Gentleman, touches all the bases of the original CIA memo:

    – Conflate unauthorized opinions with miscellaneous delusions
    – Other the dissenters (in this case by making up pejorative character traits with no empirical basis)
    – Dispel objective consideration of evidence with snide hand-waving
    – Cherry-pick minutia to simulate inductive logic

    http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/intellectual-character-of-conspiracy-theorists/

    For all the second-rate academics churned out by British INGSOC indoctrination, there’s a ready market for attacks on unauthorized opinions. So all the little Mboyas CIA put into cold storage, they can’t put them in charge anymore but they can at least make them do doctrinal tricks.

  • craigmurray.org.uk

    No sign of that comment RobG; maybe the spam filter ate it. Try resubmitting the text and the link separately. Thanks for the murder threat. Volunteer moderators really appreciate murder threats.

    The Akismet spam filter works on a database compiled from many sites. If you have posed abuse on other sites their moderators may have been marking your comments as spam just to spite you. Or if you’ve been using a machine infected with a botnet it may have been used to post spam without your knowledge – you said your machine had been running slow. Either way that info goes to the Akismet database and now your comments here get spammed automatically. Or the spam flag may have become associated with the links you post, causing everyone’s comments including those links to get spammed.

    Moral; keep your comments and your system clean.

  • glenn_uk

    @RobG: Look mate, instead of telling me that I’m mad and going to be shot, could you please state:

    1/ Why it’s all my fault, and
    2/ WTF am I supposed to do about it?

    Thanks.

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